# Elizabeth Longford Prize

The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography was established in 2003 in memory of Elizabeth Longford (1906-2002), the British author, biographer and historian. The £5,000 prize is awarded annually for a historical biography published in the preceding year.
The Elizabeth Longford Prize is sponsored by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros and administered by the Society of Authors.

## Winners
### 2020s

2022
* Winner: Andrew Roberts for George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch (Allen Lane)
Shortlist:
* Timothy Brennan for Places of Mind, A Life of Edward Said (Bloomsbury)
* Helen Carr for The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster (Oneworld Publications)
* Jonathan Petropoulos for Göring's Man in Paris: The Story of A Nazi Art Plunderer and His World (Yale University Press)
* Jane Ridley for George V: Never a Dull Moment (Chatto & Windus)
2021
* Winner: Fredrik Logevall for JFK: Vol 1 (Penguin Books)
Shortlist:
* Sudhir Hazareesingh for Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Allen King)
* Sarah LeFanu for Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War (Hurst)
* Samanth Subramanian for A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S Haldane (Atlantic)
2020
* Winner: D W. Hayton for Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier
Shortlist:
* Andrew S. Curran for Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
* Richard J. Evans for Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
* Oliver Soden for Michael Tippett: The Biography
* A. N. Wilson for Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

### 2010s

2019
* Winner: Julian Jackson for A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Shortlist:
* Diarmaid MacCulloch for Thomas Cromwell: A Life
* Andrew Roberts for Churchill: Walking with Destiny
* Jeffrey C. Stewart for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
2018
* Giles Tremlett for Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
2017
* John Bew for Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
2016
* Andrew Gailey for The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
2015
* Ben Macintyre for A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
2014
* Charles Moore for Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography. Volume 1
2013
* Anne Somerset for Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
2012
* Frances Wilson for How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
2011
* Philip Ziegler for Edward Heath (bio of Edward Heath)
2010
* Tristram Hunt for The Frock-Coated Communist - The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

### 2000s

2009
* Mark Bostridge for Florence Nightingale. The Woman and Her Legend
2008
* Rosemary Hill for God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
2007
* Jessie Childs for Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
2006
* Charles Williams for Petain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History
2005
* Ian Kershaw for Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War'
2004
* Katie Whitaker for Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic
2003
* David Gilmour for The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling